Resources
A professional resource library for leaders building culture by design — survey banks, toolkits, protocols, playbooks, and ready-to-use templates, plus a curated reading list. Use them as starting points and adapt each one to your school's context.
These resources are illustrative templates and starting points drawn from the Culture-by-Design framework — not licensed instruments. Adapt them to your context and pair them with your district's policies and any validated tools you already use.
Resource Library
Culture survey bank
A bank of culture-pulse statements across the nine dimensions, ready to assemble into a short staff survey.
Open → 🛡️Trust-building toolkit
Practical moves for building relational trust — consistency, transparency, presence, and following through.
Open → 🏅Recognition program kit
Templates for authentic, frequent recognition — shout-out routines, milestone moments, and a recognition calendar.
Open → 🗣️Teacher-voice protocols
Structured ways to gather, act on, and close the loop on teacher input so voice becomes a shared decision habit.
Open → 👥PLC playbook
Norms, agendas, and routines for professional learning communities and shared planning that actually stick.
Open → 💗Belonging & inclusion guide
Practices that help every staff member feel seen, valued, and included — connecting belonging to engagement.
Open → 🌿Staff-wellbeing toolkit
Workload, sustainability, and care routines that protect educator wellbeing and reduce burnout-driven turnover.
Open → 🗂️Meeting templates
Agendas for staff meetings, listening sessions, and culture check-ins designed to build trust and voice.
Open → 🗺️90-day culture plan template
A phased Listen → Act → Embed planner with a recognition calendar, communication plan, and progress tracker.
Open → 📚Reading list
Curated themes on organizational culture, psychological safety, positive organizational psychology, and retention.
Jump down →Recommended Reading
Themes to explore as you build culture by design. These point to well-established areas of practice and scholarship rather than specific titles — pair them with the works your own context values.